IS suicide bomber kills two cops in Turkey
 

GAZIANTEP, Turkey: Two police ******rs were killed and 23 people wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the south- eastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, the gover**r and police sources said, in one of two attacks on security forces on Sunday.

There was ** immediate claim of responsibility but security sources said police raided the home of a suspected Islamic State militant believed to have carried out the attack and detained his father for DNA tests and questioning.

Turkey has suffered attacks recently both from Kurdish militants and Islamic State fighters, raising uncertainty at home and among Nato allies about spillover of conflict from neighbouring Syria. The Gaziantep-based suspect is believed to have detonated a bomb-laden vehicle just outside the gates of police headquarters on a street housing several other provincial government buildings whose ******* were smashed.

"The father of a suspect who is believed to have carried out the attack has been detained.

We have records of the suspect’s links with Islamic State," a security source said.

A Turkish flag was hung on the side of the police headquarters building. Many shops were severely damaged.

Shopkeepers and municipality workers cleaned streets covered with rubble strewn by the blast felt across the city.

Police, who cordoned off the area and increased security measures across the city, ******* the pieces of a wrecked vehicle and collected body parts thought to be belonging to the perpetrator from the scene.

Nineteen police ******rs and four civilians were wounded in the attack, a statement from Gaziantep gover**r Ali Yerlikaya’s ****** said.

One police ******r died at the scene and a second in hospital, a security source said. Several hundred miles eastwards along the same border, in the town of Nusaybin, three Turkish soldiers were killed and 14 others wounded in an armed attack by Kurdish militants, an army statement said. Turkey is facing security threats on several fronts.

As part of a US-led coalition, it is fighting Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and Iraq and battling Kurdish PKK militants in its southeast, where a 2-1/2-year ceasefire collapsed last July, triggering the worst violence since the 1990s.

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